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Arrakis.

LMAO at the irony of YouTube taking a stand against bot scraping as if that isn’t Google’s entire business model.

Honestly why does it matter what they say, they’re just gonna do whatever their leader tells them when the time comes.

It’s just Kavanaugh’s “Roe v. Wade is settled precedent” all over again. Grifters gonna grift.

Could also be cool as part of a desalination plant (which they mentioned could also be a calcium source for the limestone). Permanently sequester the carbon from the extracted ocean water.

Correct.

Want people to eat more US tomatoes? Maybe try making them taste good instead of just growing the tomato equivalent of iceberg lettuce because it keeps for weeks and “looks good”

Yes.

Because anyone with more than 2 brain cells has elected to not download it.

Now introducing Tyson’s CEO: Cthulhu.

People aren’t stupid and if you misrepresent the facts, no one will believe anything else you’re saying no matter how emotional you are when misrepresenting the facts.

Like, say, if you were to imply that anything less than the vast overwhelming majority of all meat consumed comes from factory farms? Ignorance is bliss I suppose…

IDK, I am not a psychiatrist, I suggest you talk to one though. Could be life changing.

What the user wants to hear is usually biased in the question. “Why are vaccines good” will have a different response from “Why are vaccines bad”

Both may or may not include factual information (again, middle school student guessing at a reading assignment analogy), but they’re shaped by the questioner to reaffirm your own biases.

Pretty sure that’s the tag line for Gemini

LLMs are not designed to give you objective factual answers. They’re designed to guess what you want to hear, like a middle school student writing a book report for a book they never read.

I’m thinking the best fix here may be to see a psychiatrist, get a diagnosis, and some medication. Then close the tabs.

What’s “the word” and does it make you literally so angry?

Somewhere out there a goblin and a tiefling are about to throw down.

Can we just not do both? Thanks.

Also, alternatives to flying include cars ($$$ + muuuch slower + only slightly less bad) and public transit (requires collective buy-in and can’t happen overnight).

Most people can just drop meat on a whim, but I can’t just magic a US High-Speed Rail network into existence. I’ll continue to support the CA HSR with my vote and my tax dollars, and continue to take my rare vacations to locations within driving distance, but these aren’t really equivalent changes.

There is a much more robust set of existing alternatives to meat than there is to flying, at least in the US.

A lot of shaky stuff in here that has a long way to go before it makes it out of the lab.

3.5 cubic meters of material ought to be enough to make quite a comfy house

OP, a 3.5 m-wide cube is not 3.5 cubic meters. That’s the size of a decently large shed… Of solid concrete.

would have enough capacity to store about 10 kilowatt-hours of energy, which is considered the average daily electricity usage for a household

No mention in the article about round trip efficiency, self-discharge rates / storage duration, etc.

Storing 10 kWh doesn’t mean much if it loses much of that to internal losses, leakage into the environment, etc., before you can use it.

Capacitors generally tend to be designed to store very little energy but can charge/discharge repeatedly at a high rate. Is this designed to discharge quickly? If so, what happens if someone touches the giant Borg cube in your yard?

Concrete is also prone to cracking, which last I checked, is not good for electronics.

That said, this is an interesting concept, and if it can perform at a useful level / scale, I could see industrial uses for large systems with high peak loads / energy recovery / regenerative braking, as a cost effective way to smooth grid loads, but probably wouldn’t expect to see it in use at people’s homes for a loooong time.

Less “you can make a super capacitor at home”, more “innovative material uses may one day make super capacitors more cost effective for certain applications, if it can be scaled out of a lab”